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THE AMERICAS WEEKLY TIMES-RECORDER: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1891. THE TIMES-RECORDER, Dftlly nnd W«« ». i>. The AMKBicuh Recori>kb Fhtabliuhed 1879. he Amkricus Time** Rsf ahlmhkd 1 OXSOLIDATF.D, Al'IU'., 1**1. 8UB8CBI1TIO. : ailt, One Tear, fS.i Daily, Ore Month, - * 1 Weekly, one Yeah, - . . i.( Weekly, Six Monthh, - * * For advertising rates ad-ire** Bascom Myrick, Editor and Manager, THE TIMES i'UBLISiilNti COMPANY, Americas, Ga. RusineHM Office, Telephone 99- Editorial Rooms, aft< r 7 o’clock p. tr Telephone 29. Americus, Qa., Nov. 27, 1891. TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. Money matters have be. n very tight and we have not asked you for money in several months. Our ere iluus have Indulged us and we have indulged you. Bat our creditors are now prei sing us. They will take excuses n- li. 'or. We are therefore obliged to call on yon. Ono dollar isn't much an, you can spare it. We have a thousan ,1 tars due us in these one dollar d *hts You can spare one dollar; we ct.miut spare the thousand dollars. Please call at our office and settle your subscriptions or remit by registcied letter, postal note or money order. Don’t put this off, but attend to it at once. NOTICE. After you have sent us a remittance, please look at the next issue to' see if the date mark on your paper is changed opposite yout name; it so, that is your receipt for the money sent. If we ac knowledge receipt by letter of all remit tances, as some subscribe* s have asked, the postage alone would .cost ns $2.> to $30. If a remittance should fail to ■ reach us, as indicated by the expira tion mark, write us, and wo will advise you in regard to it cheerfully. PLEASE HEAD TUIH. A blue pencil mark around your name and dato means that you are in arrears, and that we are very m ich in need of monoy. Wo have many hundreds of dol lars due us, and as It tak ‘S fifty dollars a day to run our establishment, our creditors must bo paid, and paid at • once. Ploase sond tho money by regis tered letter, P. O. money order or ex press. t The Athens Banner claims tube the only paper in the South that is open in Its denunciation of the plan to open the World’s Fair on Sunday. MORE CAKE NEEDED IN PACKING COTTON Liverpool cotton buyers have often of late met with serious losses in conse quence of the bad condition of the lint received at that port from this country. Bales that to outward appearance were all right, have beon found to contain large quantities of poor lint. So serious has this become that foreign buyers have sought the aid of the National Depart ment of State to remove tho evil. Should it continue it will discredit American cotton in foreign markets to an extent that will affect the value of every year’s crop, for neither foreign nor American mills will pay the face value for cotton A WAR-LIKE EDITOR. Editor Gantt seems to have been made specially vicious by bis reeent Illness, at least lie Is as belligerent as a hyena with the toothache, and is not only mak ing It exceedingly interesting for bis political adversaries, but is firing into those clerical gentlemen whom he desig. nates “sensational preachers,” Jones, Small, Wadsworth and Lee, with his characteristic charges of grape and can ister. Among other things, lie says of tho two latter: There never was a more shameful outrage perpetrated Irom the pulpit than Mr. Wads worth'. attacks upon the Episcopal aud Bap tist churches; and his bitter denounciutlnn Louisville is the only city that is not alarmed by a water famine. Kentuck ians can more easily do without water than any people in the world. It is not always tho best educator that stands the best examination. Questions whose answers depend upon memory are no test of qualification, nnd too many each questions aro asked in examina tions. A West Point man lias just received letters patent on a bottle stopper. He ought to do a rushing busluess with tbe Atlanta prohibitionists. — Tribune-of- Jtome. Wouldn’t a cork scrow man come nearer filling the bill? Ik the public echools would give in struction in typo-sotting, in the use of type-sotting machines, in short-hand and tho use of type writing machines, they would turn out more young men and wo men capable of earning their livings than they do now.—Tlmos-Union. Tub Columbus Evening Ledger, tbe bright afternoon paper of our sister city, celebrated its fifth birthday on Wednes day, November 18. The Times-Recor- dkh extends to Mr. E. T. Byington and tbe accomplished Mrs. Byington con gratulations. Their bright paper is a living suocess. From nil over the Union, from New York city down to the village, come complaints of the shortness of tbe water supply. There Is certaiDly as much wa ter in the world as over, and tho popula tion has not so wonderfully increased all of a sudden. Does this mean that the people are drinking more water and washing thomselvcs more frequently? By abandoning tho neighborhood of Park llow, Ann street and Broadway, the New Y’ork Ilcrald gets out of tho newspaper swim, but at tho same time ft follows the business trend of New York—goes up town. Mr. Bennett's new building will be on the corner of Broad way and Thirty-fifth street. The old Herald building was in Its day the finest newspaper office in tho world, being of marble and costing a million dollars. The beneficial effect of tbe defeat of the Berner bill is seen in the fact that as soon as the Legislature adjourned, the Central railroad, in which Georgia people bold several million dollar! in vested, at once secured a loan to retire its floating debt. If the Berner bill bad become a law, this loan could not have been made, and the Central might have thus been forced into a receiver’s hands; and this Is jnst what tho wreckers wanted. until they are sure that it is what it is of the citizens of Augusta will certainly represented to be. Messrs. Alex. Sprunt, & Son, of Wilmington, N. C., extensive exporters of cotton, have issued a circu lar to cotton planters and buyers in which grave reasons arc given why everybody in the business should com bine to restore and maintain the reputa tion of American cotton. After stating that “a large part of last seasou’s hold ings was rendered unmerchantable and worthless by ptevious exposure to the woatiler in open fields or under the eaves of outhouses," and that many exporters were deceived and made such heavy losses from damage and falling off in weight that they had reached a fixed de termination to refuse all cotton that had not been properly housed this season, tiie circular says: Our purpose is to show tha 1 such careless ness reacts up.in Ilia planter. Many bales which came to us lust sprlcg apparently dry and in good condition were found, upon ex amination by the testing rod, to be utterly rotten and valueless. In one Instance a hale of apparen.lydry cotton welghingilgi pounds was opened for examination and found to contain O-'SI pounds of rotten cotton, which was sold for about one cent a'pound. Many- other similar prices c odd be quoted, hut this will suffice to Justify the warning that planter or merchant who i Isks his cotton out of doors In bad weather Is likely to suffer Kotlotn consequences—In heavy allowances for damage, or the u.tcr rejection of t e cot ton as unmerchantable. Here is work for the educational de partment of the Fanners' Alliance. The preparation of cottou for the market does not end at the gin and the baling press. Until it passes from them to the merchant it should be sheltered; after that the responsibility for its condition rests with tho buyers and the transpor tation companies. As a rule, if it leaves tho baling press in prime order, it will bo found in the same condition when the bale is opened at tho mill. Messrs. Sprunt & Son have not overrated tbe importance of care-taking on the plan tation and by interior buyers—Manu- factutors’ Resold, The governor was placed In a rather humiliating position the other day when be was forced to confess that ho had no means of aiding the sufferors at Harris' Neck, or of doing what was necessary to bo done to check the small-pox epidemic there But, as a mattor of fact, he was powerless, and bad to permit tho na tional government to do what tlio Btate ought to have boon prepared to do. Tho national government responded prompt ly aud willingly to the request for assist ance, and its action is appreciated, but this continual calling on the national government to exercise the functions of state government Is calculated to mag- nify in the eyes of the people the impor tance of the national government and lessen their respect for and dependence upon state governments. Tbe tlmo may come when the contral government will bo disposed to encroach upon the author ity of tho state governmer ts, and it may bq found then, when too late, that the people are not as jealous of the rights of the states as their best interests re quire they should be.—Savannah News. Colonel Livingston has shown him self a sensible Allianceman and, what is better, a sound Democrat. He does not approve the polloy which seeks to force the ownership of railroads Into the hands of the government or to make Alllanco demands more vigorous and sensoless. He puts Alllancemen on notice that he Is a Democrat who will go into the cau cus in Congress and will support the nominee for Speaker, whether Alliance- mon like It or not. Whatever people may say against Colonel LIvingBton, he has sbown-bimself a staunch Democrat in thla Instance, with the nerve to stand by his party.—Savannah Press. Sak Jones and Yellowstone Kit will soon engage in a joint debate on the is sues of the prohibition campaign In At lanta. It is certain that both will take active parts on opposite sides in the campaign. A contest of wit between these two famous and eccentric charac ters would be a drawing card in the show” that Atlanta will have on tbe coming municipal campaign. It would beat Sandy Cohen's ballet all hollow. The “People’s Party Paper” of At lanta prints a war map of Senator Pet- tor's head, which looks liko the tall of a comet; and the New York Sun’s political poet is moved by tho same hirsute phe nomenon to iudito a seven story ode that is worthy of production in these col umns, and would bo so reproduced, If the editor wasn't afraid he would be turned out of tbe alliance. place a stumbling block In the way of his successor in the pulpft he now occupies. Mr. Wadsworth Is to the church what John Sullivan Is to the sporting fraternity. He Is a sort of clerical prize tighter, and leaves bruised hearla and bad blood behind him wherever he goes. Homs years ago he In sulted from Ills puiptt >n Athens, and with out provocation, several of the noblest Christian ladles in that city. He had hones divided aud left a feeling ofdlscord and divi sion in many good families. It would have been far better to hare left the Methoufst pulpit In A hens unfilled for a year Ihansup- pilcl 11 wlthsu-.il u stlrcr up of strife us Mr. Wadsworth. “Of toe political preachers, we have here In Atlanta a fair iample In Kov. J. W. Lee, bettor known to his enthusiastic admirers aa "Doctor” Lee. This minister was horn and reared In the country, hut possessing more than ordinary eloquence, lie was transferred toclty churches. With thiselevatlor, “Doc tor” J.ee at once forgot ills humble friends In the country, and gave himself up, heart nnd soli!, to the aristocratic and wealthy circles of At.uula. Ho saw that no advancement could be expected from the poor farmers—his former assoclaies-whlle fo unite against them and their cause woul i be to capture the applause of the rich and powerful. He filled the partisan papers with his appeals for the erection of Gordon. Not con tent with this, he was one of the most conspicuous speakers At that artesian carmagnole, and made a most vindictive and unwarra ited as sault upon the Alllanco. Of .all the emissa ries of tile plutocrats that the f rmers have to contend wi h In Georgia, non, sre mole hltternnd vindictive than this minister of the gospel, who hns quitted his pulpit to flghtudown trodden and impoverished peo- people, and continue tllelr enslavement to the ileh. If this he modern Christianity, Gods, vc the ecu it r; I” GANTT’S GEORGIA GEOGRAPHY. What is Georgia? Gcoigia is (he Emjiirc State of the South Where is Georgia located? In the city of Atlanta. Where is the city of Atlanta located? In the Journal office. Where is the Journal office located? In Mr. Hoke Smith. Where is Mr. Hoke Smith located? In tho eyes of tho whulo peoplo. How do you know that Mr. Smith is located In tho eyes of the whole people? I read it every evening in the Atlanta Journal, nnd as Ifoko Smith owns the paper, of course he knows whereof ho speaks. • None of the State weeklies get In any more opportune work on tho economic questions than the Cuthbert Liberal-En terprise, from which the following is re produced with the ondorsomeut of The Times Recorder: “The present money stringency in the Soutt is not the result of nny actiou of the Alliance, nor is it the result of any organized effort to break down the Alliance. It is the re sult of the foolish policy of the people of the South In sending all the money they can “rake and scrape” and then strain ing their credit to buy what should be produced at home; tho silly policy of raising more cotton than tho world wanta and raising none, or rory little, of the things that wo want. It is |the result of the foolish game of “beads I win, tailB you lose” that we have been playing. Tbe other fellows win and we lose, no matter which way tho penny falls. No possible governmental financial system can give relief that will be permanent unless we change our tactica-” The marriage of Mr. John Quitman Lover of the navy to Miss Fannie Campbell Gordon of Baltimore la of Interest here, an M r. Lov ell haa many friends and connections In Sa vannah.—Savannah News. The Times-Recorder extends con gratulations to handsome “Jack Lov ell,” an old friend—and his lovely bride. Mr Lovell is the grand-son of General John Quitman, and Is a worthy descend ant of a grand Southern family. Under the new apportionment the Southern States gained several Congress men and her total vote in the electoral college will be ISO. It is not likely that that one of thesa will be lost to the Dem ocratic candidates. Tho votes of Con necticut 6, of New York 30, Now Jersey 10 and Indiana 15, make a total of 07. Their votes too are reasonably certain for the Democracy and will make a a grand total of 220. This would elect the ticket and give them eight majority over the Republicans. We have at least 0 votes from Michigan, aa the last legis lature passed a law by which the vote of the State will not bo solid for either party. In addition there Is a fighting clianco for Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New HampBhiro. Professor Harris Chappell, Pres ident of the Girl's Industrial Institute, Millodgeville, reports It in a prosperous and first-class condition. Said he: “There aro 172 girls in attendance, representing seventy-two counties. There aro thirty- five young ladies there attending tho normal school who have had some expe rience in teaching school, and from their earnings they aro paying their board. The institution Is progressing far beyond my expectations." The condition of Blaino's health is again being discussed in the public press, and statements are being made to tbe olivet that he will rctiro from the cabi net and go to tbe West Indlea early in Jan isry. The sickness of Blaine has become an awful chestnut, and the news paper correspondents at Washington would favor the country If they wore to lay it aside and take up matters of more interest. COUNT AT THE GIN. Mr. W. F. Gay, a farmer of Meriweth er county, advances an idea that is sim ple and practicable, and should he at once adopted. It is to ascertain the actual cotton re ceipts at tho initial point, the ginnery, and report from that point instead of the ports. This not only insures abso lute accuracy, a thing not now obtained by the port system, but gives'the figures many days earlier than by the present system. Every ginnery in the South keeps a record of the number of bales it turns out, and with very little trouble their reports can be consolidated day by day and furnished the cotton exchanges. Those ginneries that are away from towns could scud in liy their patrons who are hauling to market the daily reports, and thus practically everything would be covered. As the farmers are interested in keep ing up witli this kind of news, they would take pains to seo that this service as prompt. It is certainly worth a trial Mr. Gay’s idea is strongly endorsed by the Consti tution, to whom his suggestion is made. MANUFACTURING EN rERPKISES. Ever sinco The Times-Recobiieb lias been in existence it lias advocated, and in no unmeasured terms, tho establish ment of more manufacturing Interests in Americus, and 'or the present article ttiero are no apologies to be made, as the matter lias become one of the utmost importance to the people and to the town. An inventory of tho thriving cit ies of the country'will prove that, with few exceptions, the manufacturing in terests have proven the stepping stone to prosperity, and, likewise, that those towns which enjoyed no such advantages have remained at a complete standstill. The agricultural soction with which Americus is surrounded is one of pecu liar excellence, and to this fact is owing much of our city’s success; but, no city ever enjoyed permanent prosperity that depended solely upon buying and selling agricultural products. In Europe three million armed men ate sullenly facing cacli other, waiting only for tho word to spring at each other’s throats. War has long been thought of as imminent, and this state of things has como to be regarded as normal. This anomalous condition,with- out a parallel in history, is vividly por trayed in the November Forum by Wm. R. Thayer, one Jof our most acute stu dents of European politics. He has striven to put before his readers a pict ure of the status of each of the great powers—their strength, their feelings toward one another, and their probable course in caso of war. He concludes that Russia is to-day the center of the warlike storm area, and that her course ondangors all Western Europe. Evidently Governor Northen takes no stock in tho talk of mismanagement of the State Lunatic Asylum either by tho Trustees of the Superintendent and his corps, as ho has reappointed every member of the present board of Trustees. Tills Is a well deserved endorsement of a very capable and efficient management. The Governor made no mistake when he took this action, in the opinion of The Times-Recordeb BARBARISM IN THE 10TH CENTURY. A human soul launched into eternity! and through the most brutal methods! Strangulation! the poor victim, dwelling for days, perhaps weeks, upon his im pending fate, languishes in a prison cell until bis time is called. In this ago of progressioa and im provement it seems as if this relict of barbarism might well be omitted from our category. However sinful may be the victim, and though the old Mosaic law of “an cyo for an eye” should hold good when a fellow man’s blood is wan tonly shed, there should be some more decent method of execution adopted. Even let a squad of riflemen stand before the condemned, and at tho word of com mand empty their muskets into the vic tim. His death is easy and quick. Rut now all is uncertainty, the poor criminal may struggle in mortal agony until the rope breaks, and then be dragged back, to undergo anothor death. A negro will to-day bo sent to his Maker at Mount Vornon. His crime de serves death, aud it should be meted out to him; yet if we are to send a man out of tiie world, at least let it all be done with delicacy and good breeding. President Polk of tho National Far mers' Alliance was re-elected without opposition. It is a matter of regret that Colonel Livingston did not get this place, as he is a man of much more abil ity than Polk. Tho trouble seems to have been that Livingston was too much of a Democrat to satisfy the third party element that has control of tho conven tion. Ho protested against the resolu tion instructing Alliance Congressmen to keep out of the caucusses of tho two parties. He advised the convention that i.e had been elected to Congress as a Democrat, and that lie proposed to act with Ilia party regardless of any instruc tions given him by the Alliance. Colonel Livingston, as a Democrat, nominated and elected by the Democrats of his district, could not, consistently, take any other position, nor can any Democratic Congressman reconcile a different course with a decent sonse of political honesty. Senator Pugh of Alabama publishes a letter in which he opposes tiie ronomi- nation of Cleveland in 1802 for the Presi dency on the Democratic ticket. IIo asserts that tho singlo issue of the tariff upon which Cleveland fought his cam paign against Harrison is no stronger now than it was then. The tariff, lie as serts is not paramount to all other Issues and he declares that Campbell lost the fight in Ohio by running away from the silver question, The free silver issue, he contends, is as important as the tariff issue, and ho says that the new Cleveland cry has been raised by those who wish to disposo of silver. Mr. Pugh says Har rison lias been strengthened with his party since bis election, while Cleveland has made no progress in that direction. Ho adds that if tho Democrats wish to in vite defeat they will nominate Cleve land. The trouble with the Brazilian Repub lic is that about 75 per cent, of the in habitants don’t know tho meaning of tho word, and the government doesn't supply them with dictionaries. iord lytton dead. Rt Hon. Edward Robert Bul wer , ton, earl of Lytton, British ambaisj 1 " to France, died suddenly from heart di* ease in Paris on Tuesday, ' The death of Lord Lytton is a loss l tbe civilization of the times. It j s u “ pected, and will shock and grieve i?" world of scholars and lovers of the p literature of the age, urt It is as Owen Meredith that Lord I ton is best known to the world; it | Owen Meredith that every school and boy in Anglo-Saxon lands loves hi who sleeps the last sleep in the cache of France. F ™ To the many who believe in the p Ure and more honest literature, the death of Lord Lytton comes as a personal fou In the world of diplomacy it is an even of unusual importance. Lord I.yttoa was the British ambassador to France most desirable position in all the i of diplomacy. i range The South produces a great amount of cotton annually, and the farmers are „ a class mortgaged beyond redemption- but one thing can be truly said, and that is that, as lirave and uncomplaining he. lr . ors of trouble aud adversity the civilized world lias never seen their equal, j„ debt, and with little hope of extricatine themselves, they constitute tiie best strata of modern progressiveness and morality; what communities so quick to resent depravity and sinfulness as our rural settlements? and although they sometimes adopt premature methods for its suppression, there is, proportionate ly, vastly less of vice outside of the cit ies than in them, where the machinery of law and order is carried to its h cst perfection. When Editor Howell gets to be got. ernor, will not we editors have a fat I time filling all the offices at Ids disposal? The millenium will never come until a I truly good editor gets hold of the reins I of government and puts all the balance of the good editors In office; and there I is no bettor time to start this movement than right now, and hero in Georgia. I The Times-Recorder will support Edi-1 itor Howell, provided the editor of Tbe [ Times-Recorder is made Chief Justice I of|tlie Supreme Court, or some other I soft snap, with big salary and no work, I Now, if Editor Howell really wants to [ bo govornor, and is not merely coquet-1 ting, lot him speak out, or forever here- [ after hold his pcaco. Travelers may learn a iesson from Hr. I C. D. Cone, a prominent attorney ol I Parker, Dakota, who says: “I never I leave home wfthaut taking a bottle ef I Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diar-1 rhaia Remedy with me, and on many oc-1 casions have run with it to the relief of I some sufferer and have never known it I to fail.” For sale by W. C. Russell, | Americus, Ga. South Carolina will probably devote I $100,000 to an exhibit at tho world'll fair. Tho Governor of tho State, it ill said, has expressed himself in favor of I the expenditure of such asum. Anyoh-I nervation tho Govornor of North Caro-1 lina may now seo fit to make on the sub-1 ject will bo listonod to with respectful | attention.—Chicago Tribuno. ROYAL IS THE Best Baking Powder The Official Government Reports: The United States Government, after elaborate tests, reports the Royal Baking Powder to be of greater leav ening strength than any other. (Bulletin 13, Ag. Dep., p. 599 J The Canadian Official Tests, recently made, show the Royal Baking Powder highest of all in leavening strength. (Bulletin 10, p. 16, Inland Rev. Dep.) In practical use, therefore, the Royal Baking Powder goes further, makes purer and more perfect food than any other. Government Chemists Certify: “The Royal Baking Powder is composed of pure and whole some ingredients. It does not contain either alum or phosphates, of other injurious substances. Edward G. Love, Ph.D.” “ The Royal Baking Powder is undoubtedly the purest and most reliable baking powder offered to the public. “Henry A. Mott, M.D., Ph.D.” “The Royal Baking Powder is purest in quality and highest in strength of any baking powder of which I have knowledge. “ Wm. McMurtrie, Ph. D.”